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... hard to get things ready that he was sick in bed with fever when the soldiers started ; but , without waiting to get well , he hurried after them and caught up with them on the ninth of July , at a ford on the Monongahela , fifteen ...
... hard to get things ready that he was sick in bed with fever when the soldiers started ; but , without waiting to get well , he hurried after them and caught up with them on the ninth of July , at a ford on the Monongahela , fifteen ...
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... hard sum in arithmetic and has succeeded , something is obtained besides the answer ; it is confidence . The French and Indian war was the hard sum set for the American colonies , and , when it was over , when Canada was conquered and ...
... hard sum in arithmetic and has succeeded , something is obtained besides the answer ; it is confidence . The French and Indian war was the hard sum set for the American colonies , and , when it was over , when Canada was conquered and ...
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... hard to carry out your promise , did you not ? It was just so with Washington . He had said , " I will command your army . " And yet none knew better than did he , how little the fighting men of the colonies were like the trained troops ...
... hard to carry out your promise , did you not ? It was just so with Washington . He had said , " I will command your army . " And yet none knew better than did he , how little the fighting men of the colonies were like the trained troops ...
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... hard the winning would be . His troops had yet to meet the British soldiers in the open field and , after the evacua- tion of Boston , England began to find out that if America was to be whipped into obedience , there must be. THE ...
... hard the winning would be . His troops had yet to meet the British soldiers in the open field and , after the evacua- tion of Boston , England began to find out that if America was to be whipped into obedience , there must be. THE ...
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... hard one , and so nearly lost seemed the cause of the colonies , that new soldiers could not be induced to serve in the army ; all this time , too , the enemies of Washington - for there were leading men in Congress and out of it who ...
... hard one , and so nearly lost seemed the cause of the colonies , that new soldiers could not be induced to serve in the army ; all this time , too , the enemies of Washington - for there were leading men in Congress and out of it who ...
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Seite 115 - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs, that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.
Seite 76 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Seite 73 - I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense and march to the relief of Boston," was now ready to make good his word. He began to drill soldiers, and wrote to his brother that, if need be, he would accept the command of the soldiers from Virginia and that it was his full intention to devote his life and fonune to the cause.
Seite 66 - I am now, I believe, fixed in this seat, with an agreeable partner for life, and I hope to • find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world.
Seite 115 - With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity.
Seite 54 - Your honor may depend I will not be surprised, let them come at what hour they will, and this is as much as I can promise; but my best endeavors shall not be wanting to effect more. I doubt not, if you hear I am beaten, but you will hear at the same time that we have done our duty in fighting as long as there is a shadow of hope.
Seite 76 - Virginia who was among us and very well known to all of us, a gentleman whose skill and experience as an officer, whose independent fortune, great talents, and excellent universal character would command the approbation of all America, and unite the cordial exertions of all the Colonies better than any other person in the Union.
Seite 65 - Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess.
Seite 173 - And his own land which he had so loved and labored for, sorrowed deeply for its loss. Congress adjourned at once, the Speaker's chair was draped in black, the Congressmen put on mourning; there were resolutions passed, and speeches made, and memorial services held all over the land; and wherever, in cities or villages, on fishing-boat and workbench, in the farmhouse, the schoolhouse, and the homes of the wealthy and the poor, the sorrowful tidings came, there was mourning and sorrow, there were words...
Seite 58 - Do not let the soldiers march into the woods like that. The Frenchmen and the Indians may even now be hiding behind the trees ready to shoot us down. Let me send some men ahead to see where they are, and let some of our Virginians who are used to fighting in the forest go before to...